• Government House, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
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Sights of Abia

Sights of Abia

Twelve places from photographs taken around the state, each with a story you can edit and a gallery you can reorder.

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A guide built from the pictures

These pages follow a set of photographs: the Tower of Peace and the painted roundabout in Umuahia, the new bus terminal, the International Conference Centre, the National War Museum, Mater Dei Cathedral, Michael Okpara University and its UniPod, Christ the King Cathedral and the colonial museum in Aba, Akwete cloth, and the Azumini river.

Each place has its own page. The photographs live in a gallery, so a new picture can be added from the admin without touching the story. The About Abiaarise page and the home page point here.

A guide built from the pictures

Read a place

Short accounts, with the photographs underneath each one.

Abia Tower of Peace

Umuahia. The sign on the capital’s gateway junction.

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Umuahia Tower

Umuahia. A city roundabout, painted with the state slogan.

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Umuahia Bus Terminal

Umuahia. A covered coach station for the capital.

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International Conference Centre

Umuahia. Umuahia’s hall for state occasions.

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National War Museum

Umuahia. Nigeria’s war museum, in the old Biafran capital.

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Mater Dei Cathedral

Umuahia. The Catholic cathedral of Umuahia.

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Michael Okpara University

Umudike. The agricultural university at Umudike.

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UniPod, Umudike

Umudike. Nigeria’s first manufacturing UniPod.

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Christ the King Cathedral

Aba. The Catholic cathedral of Aba.

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Museum of Colonial History

Aba. Aba’s museum of the colonial years.

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Akwete Cloth

Ukwa East. The loom cloth of Ndoki.

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Azumini Blue River

Ukwa East. A blue-green river, half an hour from Aba.

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